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Karyn also has the latest technology to custom fit clubs to your needs. Have your swing analysed and get clubs made especially for you.

Golf tuition is available to all golfers from beginners to professional standard. Lessons are available in individual, group or video format.

COACHING AT KIRRIEMUIR

At Kirriemuir Golf Club we are proud of our fast growing reputation as a centre for coaching excellence led by our Head Professional Karyn Dallas

When Karyn (pictured above) arrived in 1999 she told us of her ambition to develop a coaching programme, which would be second to none.  It didn’t take long, within two years our juniors has secured three of the four Angus County titles and today we have over 200 juniors on the coaching programme. 

Karyn left her national post in 2006 to focus on her research and the juniors at Kirriemuir.  Karyn feels the time is right as we have a large number of juniors featuring at county level where we secured the top eight slots in the Angus Junior Boys Order of Merit in 2006.

PGA Professional Karyn joined us at Kirriemuir after spending four years as a tour player and five as a professional at the world famous, Gleneagles Hotel, where she became teaching co-ordinator – responsible for establishing the coaching methods used by the hotels professionals.  After leaving Gleneagles Karyn made her own coaching video, Winning Ways for Women Golfers, which was the number one selling ladies coaching video in the UK for two consecutive years.

In 2001, our coach was asked to develop coaching programme for the Scottish Ladies Teams and five years on the Scottish U18 Girls Team won the Home Internationals by the biggest margin in history.  Even more remarkable is that the entire team is available in 2007 and five of the six will still be available in 2008.

At a senior level we have many scratch golfers travelling from all over the country to work on the programme and L.E.T. Professionals Lynne Kenny and Claire Queen are quick to point to the contribution our coaching programme had to their progress.  This year we sent three more players to Tour School but unfortunately all failed at the last hurdle.  However, we anticipate we will have five players attending tour school in 2007.

COACHING EQUIPMENT

In keeping with our desire to be a leading coaching establishment we invest heavily in the latest coaching technology

Tempo Analysis

This is probably the last secret, in golf, to be exposed.  Research has shown that the world’s best players have similar timings during their golf swing.  Using the latest timing devises we can analyse, and hopefully improve, your tempo.  This is used in conjunction with Tour Tempo audio tapes which teach the player the timing of the worlds top players

Putting Analysis

We are one of only a few coaching centres, in Scotland, to have a Sam PuttLab.  The equipment enables us to scrutinise your putting stroke and to suggest minute changes, which could shave strokes off your handicap.

Video Analysis

Using computerised video equipment we can track your progress or compare you to the worlds best players.

You can even have a DVD of your lesson for a small extra charge 

RESEARCH 

Kirriemuir Golf Club is proud to be the home of the Total Golf research programme from which our golf programmes have emerged.  In 2003 Montrose Golf Links adopted our programmes and three year later they too have over 200 juniors on their programme. 

The research is into all areas of golf and in 2005 our clubmaker was named as the Scottish Clubmaker of the year. Our research, into the rules and how best to teach them, has resulted in programmes to teach rules to students as young as five. 

On the psychology front our extensive research into the behaviour and routines of tour professional has resulted in a five stage programme which teaches players how to understand and control their emotions on the golf course. 

In 2006 we worked closely with Napier Universities Biomechanics department to better understand the key movements in the golf swing.  This research run in conjunction with our research into the rhythm and timing of the swing.